[LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

[Steve Harris]

On 4 Aug 2009, at 10:21, Chris Cannam wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Frank Barknecht<fbar at footils.org>  
> wrote:
>> Hallo,
>> Arnold Krille hat gesagt: // Arnold Krille wrote:
>>
>>> Please be aware that (last time I checked) the gpl doesn't talk  
>>> about giving
>>> access to all gpl-code you use. Only if you change something you  
>>> have to make
>>> your changes available for free.
>>
>> Huh? I think, you're confusing something here. Is it too early in  
>> the morning?
>
> Arnold's explanation is approximately true of the LGPL rather than the
> GPL, so perhaps that's the confusion here.  The LADSPA header is
> indeed under the LGPL, but the plugins in question are generally under
> the GPL -- so terms and conditions of our normal flamefests apply.

I'm a but rusty on these issues, but my reading of the GPLv2 (many  
years ago now) was that LADSPA plugins in it do not "infect" the host  
with their licence.

There used to be a clear distinction between runtime linking, and  
loadtime linking.

- Steve